Microsoft Security Update - May 2009

The Powerpoint application within Office has a number of critical patches this month.  Some of the patches will help safeguard against in-the-wild targeted zero day exploits that have been circulated.  So far, the updates are working well on my corporate system.

Microsoft Security Update - May 2009
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-may.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-017.mspx
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6376

QUOTE: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability and several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office PowerPoint that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system.